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The teams will meet in a winner-take-all Game 7
on Sunday night in Philadelphia.
Seth Curry and Tobias Harris scored 24 points apiece for
top-seeded Philadelphia, which bounced back on the road after
squandering a 26-point lead at home in Game 5. Tyrese Maxey
added 16 points and seven rebounds off the bench.
Trae Young led the fifth-seeded Hawks with 34 points and 12
assists. Kevin Huerter finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds,
and Danilo Gallinari contributed 16 points for Atlanta, which is
trying to reach the Eastern Conference finals for the first time
since 2015.
Atlanta pulled within 100-97 with 14 seconds to go on a put-back
dunk by Clint Capela, but Harris sank a pair of free throws to
increase the lead to five points with 13.3 seconds to go.
Huerter added a jump shot for the Hawks' final basket, but
Atlanta could not close the gap as Harris closed the scoring
with two free throws.
Philadelphia led 80-76 at the end of the third quarter.
The 76ers opened the quarter on a 14-0 run to transform a
four-point halftime deficit into a 61-51 advantage. Curry
tallied 11 points during the run with a trio of 3-pointers and a
long pull-up jump shot.
Atlanta was on top 51-47 at the half. Young led all scorers with
20 first-half points on 8-for-15 shooting.
The Hawks opened the game on a 10-2 run, which was capped by a
floating jump shot by Huerter. Philadelphia trailed by as many
as 12 points in the first quarter.
An alley-oop dunk by Capela capped a 10-0 run that made it 39-29
in favor of Atlanta with 7:26 to go in the first half.
Philadelphia responded with an 11-2 run, capped by a layup from
Furkan Korkmaz that sliced the deficit to one point with 3:41 to
go.
Young hit a 3-pointer from 35 feet in the final minute of the
first half to push the Hawks' lead to 51-45, but Embiid sank a
driving layup on the opposite end to pull the 76ers within four
at halftime.
--Field Level Media
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